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Circus Juventas, formerly known as Circus of the Star, gave a sneak preview Thursday of its new building, the Big Top, on Montreal Avenue near the Highland Park Pavilion.
The youth organization has operated at a city recreation center since 1995.
The approximately $2 million building is 40 feet high with 21,000 square feet and can seat 1,200 spectators. It will allow the program to expand to train up to 500 young people, who should be spinning and flying and balancing there this summer.
Puckett workout
Firefighters at St. Paul's Station 20 are getting extra-fine workouts these days, thanks to equipment donated by Kirby Puckett.
The weight-training machine and treadmill came to the station because the former Twins star is a friend of St. Paul firefighter Raphael Victorian, who works at the station on University Avenue near Vandalia Street.
Victorian is also a photographer and has taken portraits of the Puckett family. Recently, Puckett mentioned that he was remodeling his home and had to get rid of the equipment; Victorian suggested that the firefighters at the station could get good use out of it.
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